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Teleostei, Ichthyodectiformes) - a New Visit Inside the Ichthyodectid Phylogeny bulletin de l'institut royal des sciences naturelles de belgique sciences de la terre, 78: 209-228, 2008 bulletin van het koninklijk belgisch instituut voor natuurwetenschappen aardwetenschappen, 78: 209-228, 2008 Considérations about the Late Cretaceous genus Chirocentrites and érection of the new genus Heckelichthys (Teleostei, Ichthyodectiformes) - A new visit inside the ichthyodectid phylogeny by Louis TAVERNE Taverne, L., 2008 - Considérations about the Late Cretaceous Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)(1), presenting an almost genus Chirocentrites and érection of the new genus Heckelichthys worldwide distribution. Their représentatives were (Teleostei, Ichthyodectiformes) - A new visit inside the ichthyodectid long-bodied, with a dorsal fin shifted backward to near phylogeny. In: Steurbaut, E„ Jagt, J.W.M. & Jagt-Yazykova, the E.A. (Editors), Annie V. Dhondt Mémorial Volume. Bulletin de tail, opposite to the anal fin, and with a protruded l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de lower jaw, which led to their nickname of "bull-dog" la Terre, 78: 209-228, 10 figs, 1 table, Brussels, October 31, 2008 fishes (Fig. 1). These fishes, the size of which ranged -ISSN 0374-6291. from a few centimetres to almost six meters, were among the major predators within the Cretaceous marine fish communities, as shown by their frequently enlarged dentition. In the floor of the nasal fossa Abstract they possess a very peculiar endochondral bone, the latero- basal ethmoid (= ethmopalatine), not present The author describes briefly the osteology of the three valid species in other of the Late Cretaceous genus Chirocentrites. He shows that only teleosts, except in their osteoglossomorph close allies, the type species, C. coroninii, belongs to this genus. He creates the the Osteoglossidae, Notopteridae and Mormyridae new genus Heckelichthys for the two other species, C. microdon and (Taverne, 1974: fig. 1, 1975b: fig. 1). C. vexillifer, with the latter as type species. The phylogeny of the Fifteen genera are currently recognized within Ichthyodectidae is studied. The systematic position of Chirocentrites the and Heckelichthys is specified. Ichthyodectidae: Saurocephalus harlan, 1824, Saurodon hays, 1830, Thrissops agassiz, 1833, Keywords: Teleostei, Ichthyodectidae, Late Cretaceous, Chirocen¬ Cladocyclus agassiz, 1841 (= Chiromystus cope, trites, Heckelichthys gen. nov„ osteology, phylogeny. 1885, Proportheus jaekel, 1909, Ennelichthys Jordan, 1921, Itaparica S ilva Santos, 1986), Chirocentrites heckel, 1849, plctet, Résumé Spathodactylus 1858, Ichthyodectes cope, 1870, Xiphactinus Leidy, 1870 (= Portheus cope, 1871), Gillicus Hay, 1898, L'auteur décrit brièvement Tostéologie des trois espèces valides du Eubiodectes Hay, 1903, genre Chirocentrites d'âge Crétacé Supérieur. Il montre que seule Coyoo Lees & bartholomai, l'espèce-type, C. coroninii, appartient à ce genre. Il crée le nouveau 1987, Prosaurodon stewart, 1999, Faugichthys genre Heckelichthys pour les deux autres espèces, C. microdon and Taverne & Chanet, 2000, Va/lecillichthys Blanco C. vexillifer, avec cette dernière comme espèce-type. La phylogénie des Ichthyodectidae est étudiée. La position systématique de (1) Gillicus, recently found in the Lower Maastrichtian Chirocentrites et à'Heckelichthys est précisée. of southwest Japan (Tanimoto & Kikyo, 2001) and Saurodon of the Mots-clefs: Teleostei, Ichthyodectidae, Crétacé Supérieur, Chiro¬ Campano-Maastrichtian of Nardô, southem centrites, Heckelichthys gen. nov., ostéologie, phylogénie. Italy (Taverne & Bronzi, 1999) are the youngest Ichthyodectidae known to date. Portheus dunedinensis Chapman, 1935, described from the Paleocene of New Introduction Zealand, does not seem to be an ichthyodectid. fis lower jaw is elongated, not protruded and articulated with the quadrate far behind the orbit The fossil marine teleost family Ichthyodectidae ranges level (Chapman, 1935: fig. 1). lts shape does not in âge Late Jurassic from the (Oxfordian) to the Late correspond to an ichthyodectid lower jaw. 210 Louis TAVERNE Fig. 1 - Thrissops subovatus von münster in agassiz, 1844 from the Kimmeridgian (Upper Jurassic) of Bavaria. Specimen N° 1905 85 12 of the Royal Scottish Museum of Edinburgh (courtesy of the Roy. Scot. Mus. Edinb.). & Cavin, 2003 and Unamichthys Alvarado-Ortega, for "his" Cladocyclidae (Cladocychis, Chiromystus 2004. A sixteenth genus will be erected soon by Cavfn and Chirocentrites) is "supraoccipital crest overhangs & Forey (in press) for the species Ichthyodectes occiput". But such a situation already exists in the bardacki cavin, 1997 from the Turonian of Morocco. I primitive Thrissops (taverne, 1977: fig. 5-9) and am personally studying new ichthyodectid genera from Unamichthys (alvarado-ortega, 2004: fig. 4) as the Santonian of Italy and from the Aptian/Albian of well as in the advanced Vallecillichthys (Blanco-Pinón West Africa. Moreover, some formerly synonymised & Alvarado-Ortega, 2007: fig. 3-5). As for the genera are actually under revision and could be restored Unamichthyidae, they are based only on the primitive (R M. Brito, pers. com., Dec. 2007). So it is sure that characters of Unamichthys (alvarado-ortega, 2004: the generic list of the family will be lengthened in the 803). In such conditions, it is possible to establish a next future. Ail the ichthyodectid taxa mentioned above particular family for practically each ichthyodectid are of Cretaceous âge, except for the Late Jurassic genus. Thrissops. That is why other paleontologists refuse this point of The genera Prymnetes cope, 1871 from the view, arguing that the osteology of the Ichthyodectidae Cretaceous of Mexico, Mesochtpea ping & Yen, sensu lato is sufficiently homogenous to range all the 1933 from the Lower Cretaceous of China and genera in a single family, with only a subfamilial rank Chuhsiungichthys Lew, 1974 from the Lower Cretaceous for the Saurodontinae and Ichthyodectinae (Taverne & ofChina and Japan could be three other candidates to be chanet, 2000). That is the option followed here. included within the family Ichthyodectidae. However, The aim of the present paper is to verify the their skeletons remain too poorly known to be sure of homogeneity of one of these ichthyodectid genera, such a relationship (chang, 1963; Bardack, 1965; Chirocentrites heckel, 1849, by comparing briefly the Yabumoto, 1994). skulls of the different species ranged within the genus, A few recent authors divide the classical and to study its relationships with the other members Ichthyodectidae in several distinct families, the of the family. heckel (1849: 17) established this Unamichthyidae, the Cladocyclidae, the Saurodontidae genus for three new fossil fish species that he described and the Ichthyodectidae sensu stricto (maisey, 1991, shortly: Chirocentrites coroninii heckel, 1849, the type among others). But some of these new families are species, from the Cenomanian of Gorizia (north-eastern established on a very weak basis. For instance, the Italy, nearthe Slovenian border), Chirocentrites gracilis only autapomorphy proposed by maisey (1991: 207) Heckel, 1849 from the Cenomanian of Volzhji-Grad Heckelichthys, a new Late Cretaceous Ichthyodectiform genus 211 (near Comen, Slovenia) and Chirocentrites microdon "Ch. " guinensis surely belongs to another genus than heckel, 1849 from the Turonian of Hvar (Lesina) Chirocentrites but more and better-preserved material is island (Croatia). Shortly afterwards, Heckel (1850: necessaiy to allow a generic valuable détermination. 203-213, pl. 13-17) gave a more detailed description of The ichthyodectid fish body from the Albian of these three species, completed with a series of figures. Pietraroia (southern Italy) studied by d'Erasmo (1915: Unfortunately, Heckel's studies were essentially 97-100, fig. 34-36, pl. 13, fig. 2) and referred by him morphometric and devoid of a real osteological to Ch. coroninii belongs probably also to the genus approach as demanded by modern paleoichthyological Cladocyclus (slgnore et al., 2005, 2006). research. So the cranial skeleton of those fishes remains Recently, cavin & forey (in press) re-examined poorly understood till today and their caudal skeleton is the holotype of Ch. gracilis. They concluded that this completely unknown. The holotype and only complete species does not differ from Ch. coroninii and put the specimen of Ch. coronini ever found, as well as the former in synonymy with the latter. holotype of Ch. microdon, were never restudied after Spathodactylus Pictet, 1858 from the Lower Heckel's works. Cretaceous of Les Hivernanches (Voirons), Haute- Six years later, heckel (1856: 245-248, pl. 2) Savoie, France, is a nronospecific genus known described and figured a fourth species, Chirocentrites by a single badly preserved specimen of about 70 vexillifer heckel, 1856, from the Cenomanian of cm length. Taverne (1986) placed it in synonymy Slovenia, which he attributed to the genus. He already with Chirocentrites on the basis of data outlined by introduced this name one year before (Heckel, 1855: bardack (1965). That's why in some recent papers 166), but without any description or figure (nomen (Blanco-Pinón & Alvarado-Ortega, 2007: 457) nudiim). Today, Ch. vexillifer is the best known of Spathodactylus neocomiensis plctet, 1858 is cited all the Chirocentrites species since the osteological as Chirocentrites neocomiensis. However, the latter revision made by Taverne (1986) and the only of possesses middle sized teeth, a dentary with a very low which the caudal skeleton
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